The People�s Republic of China has abandoned its previous restraint and is actively shaping the global security order of the 21st century. China has shifted the logic underlying its foreign and security policy with a view to its increased political and economic power, thereby reprioritising a variety of security interests. The analysis here is explicitly focusing on China�s role in multilateral arms control. The two authors, Dr Oliver Meier and Professor Michael Staack, posit and demonstrate that China�s growing involvement is crucial to the preservation and further elaboration of arms control policy and international governance. The authors show that despite a host of ambivalences in its arms control policy, China has displayed a willingness to engage on a greater scale. This offers points of departure for an arms control dialogue with Germany and Europe.